The new Cell Phone tax in Lincoln (sales, home)

[Gunluvver2]

Yesterday I needed to buy a Top Up card for my Virgin Mobile phone. I was in one of the local grocery stores that sells various Cell Phone minute cards. They had a Virgin Top Up card for $30/400 minutes. When I paid for it at the register instead of the usual 7% sales tax that would equal $1.40 the total was $4.18 in taxes in addition to the $30 purchase price. This is the Cell Phone use tax that our city council passed recently. Now I realize taxes are necessary but I also feel that if there is ANY way a citizen can legally avoid paying a tax he has a duty to do it.

I have friends and relatives living in Montana where there is no sales tax. I pay $30 or more every month to buy Virgin Mobile Top Up cards. I can have a relative buy 12 $30 Top Up cards for me in Montana for $360 plus a $.44 stamp. Buying the same cards here In Lincoln would cost me $410.61. In other words I can save $50.61 by buying them in Montana. It pays to have friends in different places.

GL2

[JustMe_T3K]

lol 44 cent stamp

Wait for them to get lost in the mail.

Also anytime you buy something out of state and bring it home you are required by law to pay the difference or the whole amount of NE state sales tax to NE.
This includes many things mostly mail order items.

I think it is actually referred to as a use tax.

Sure you don't have to and nobody is going to come knock on your door if you choose to break this law.